Weekend Movie Guide: Deadpool, Zoolander 2, How To Be Single

Ryan

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Deadpool, Zoolander 2 and How To Be Single open in movie theaters around St. Louis this weekend. Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 and Sisters begin showing atKeller 8, while The Martian and Love The Coopers are among the movies now available to rent at Redbox.

Deadpool and How To Be Single premiere at MX Movies in downtown St. Louis this weekend.Kung Fu Panda 3 is also playing.

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Recapping Last Weekend

The total overall weekend box office gross came in at under $100 million for the first time this year. Kung Fu Panda 3 won the weekend box office for the second time in its second weekend of release with $21.2 million in receipts. Hail, Caesar!, in its debut weekend, brought in $11.35 million, which made it the only other movie to pass $10 million over the weekend.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens crossed the $900 million mark domestically with just shy of $7 million in ticket sales. With $1.1 billion in foreign ticket sales, the film has now made just over $2 billion worldwide. It’s firmly in third place for all-time worldwide gross, about $175 million behind the second-place film, Titanic.

The other two movies opening over the weekend were The Choice and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. The Choice became the lowest-opening Nicholas Sparks by far, with just more than $6 million in ticket sales. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies brought in $5.3 million.

What I Saw This Week

The only movie I saw last week was Hail, Caesar! I didn’t think the film would be very good, in fact, I shorted it on HSX.com. It met my expectations and wasn’t very good. I thought George Clooney was good in it, but the other actors and actresses were very poorly used. The cameos that we saw in the trailer were about all that we see from them.

Zoolander 2

Zoolander opened back in September of 2001 to $15 million in its opening weekend and $45 million during its domestic run on a budget of $28 million. The film became a cult-classic on home video and now, just over 14 years later, Derek Zoolander and Hansel are back. The film is packed with celebrity cameos, but unfortunately former First Lady Laura Bush is not in the film.

Catch It Before It’s Gone

The last film in the Hunger Games franchise has been out long enough that if you have any interest in seeing it, you’ve probably already seen it. So, I suggest going to see Sisters, a really funny movie starring Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.

Sisters trailer

Make It A Redbox Night

Among the movies coming to your local Redbox this weekend are The Martian and Love The Coopers. Surely you’ve head of Matt Damon’s The Martian, directed by Ridley Scott. It’s an award contender and a really good film.

Another film I enjoyed was Love The Coopers starring Olivia Wilde, Amanda Seyfried, John Goodman and Diane Keaton.

Love The Coopers trailer

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